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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (5 children)

NaNoWriMo? Na, No Mo'. Does this have anything to do with their bungled AI policy? Maybe, maybe not, but hey, the news article that I saw this announcement in thought that it was pertinent to mention.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

considering their endless history of scandal, good riddance

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Not dating your press releases on your own site is a choice. (Lot more places do this and it is driving me slowly mad) So, did they drop this yday? Some weird schrodingers april fools joke deflection attempt?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why does NaNoWriMo need a nonprofit anyway? What's next, No Nut November LLC?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

As funny as that is, I am sure that there are nonprofits that are aiming to stop fapping.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

however they are exactly canceled out by nonprofits aiming to promote fapping

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

the Effective Onanism movement

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Refractorive Altruism

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There's a fucking for profit that does this and it's used by the god damn USA Speaker of the House so that his son can monitor his fondling

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I am fairly certain that their stupid AI stance at least played a role. I’m part of a largish writing community, where at least several hundred people did NaNo each year, a good part of them donated too. Last year, no one partook, instead we did our own internal thing.

If this happened across other communities too, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it did, they must have felt it financially.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I'll believe it! I didn't want to make that claim since I had no evidence.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Their dumb contraction should have doomed the project from the start...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It is a CIA psyop to prevent revolutionary thought from arising in written media, in that it's a self-inflicted PIP that makes you feel inadequate in your creative writing ability. CIA funding (obviously funneled through NGOs via CIA front USAID) is how it's survived so long with such a stupid name. Of course, now that government spending on the CIA is going down, so is NaNoWriMo. All that's left is for it to be supplanted by some benevolent Chinese competitor that people will say steals your data, or something.

/s /s /s

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I demand you prove your assertion! preferably using wallspaghetti and alphabet soup, of course. so's I know it's totes legit and original!

(/s ofc, and link too (incase anyone didn't see that))

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

[This is what tankies actually believe!!2!one!!!]